Entries from May 2009

May 28, 2009

10 weeks.. weather is getting warmer… rain erratically… and the flu bug still around

the weather has been really hot lately.
i am sure all of you would have moments where you sweat just standing doing nothing.
you are losing minerals and electrolytes and that will affect your performance at training later.
or it can affect your recovery from those hard sessions too.
something about training stress.
1 hour after hard training, your body [...]

May 21, 2009

11 weeks… are you behind schedule because of work or illness?

the reality of life…
it is not as neat as we want it to be…
in situations like this, you need to decide what matter most, which workouts matter more, how much to do in the workout, how to squeeze 2 workouts to one…
all these decisions.
things you should consider..
what is your strength,
what is the workout that will [...]

May 12, 2009

12 weeks to desaru, and you missed a whole week of training due to illness, exam…and whatever

you have been training for the race, all is well but whole of last week you caught the flu bug.
or rather the bug found you.
your kid is taking his end of the year exam, and you were spending all the free time you have to coach him to pass Chinese.
you needed to travel for work [...]

May 4, 2009

weather has been erratic, rained for a while and followed by really scorching sun for the rest of the day.
the economy is down..
natural disasters abound…
aware was made us aware of the weakness and pettiness of human behavior…
this is really a bad time to think about races but life got to go on!
it was a bad [...]